Courtside Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

108

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

10.80

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceGamingeSportsFitnessHealth CareAppsSportsFantasy SportsMedia and EntertainmentVideo Games

Summary

Courtside Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Deepen Parikh, Vasu Kulkarni. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Courtside Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Ore Ventures, Transmedia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sterling.VC, Advancit Capital, Elysian Park Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sterling.VC, Sky, GC VR Gaming Tracker Fund.

Comparing to the other companies, this Courtside Ventures performs on 23 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Courtside Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Video Games. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight StockX, REBEL, Religion of Sports.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
SportstechConsumer/RetailGaming/Esports
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 100000000
Fund raised date
2023-01-19

Analytics

Total investments
108
Lead investments
9
Exits
5
Rounds per year
10.80
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Sports (25)
  • Gaming (20)
  • Fitness (13)
  • Media and Entertainment (12)
  • eSports (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (81)
  • Denmark (3)
  • Germany (3)
  • India (6)
  • Belgium (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
59M
Group Appearance index
0.99
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tap 12 Jun 2023 FinTech Seed 3M United States, New York, New York
Tradeblock 01 Aug 2022 Retail, Shoes, Trading Platform Seed 11M United States, Texas, Houston
Wemash 01 Nov 2015 Communities, News, Film Seed 2M United States, California, Los Angeles

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